Dell PowerSwitch S4820T 9.50.1 Configuration Guide for the S4820T System - Page 805

Configure the following optional and required parameters: - encryption-type: Enter 0 for plain text or 7 for encrypted text. - password: Enter a text string up to 32 characters long. To view the password configured for a terminal, use the show config command in LINE mode. Enabling and Disabling Privilege Levels To enable and disable privilege levels, use the following commands. • Set a user's security level. EXEC Privilege mode enable or enable privilege-level If you do not enter a privilege level, Dell Networking OS sets it to 15 by default. • Move to a lower privilege level. EXEC Privilege mode disable level-number - level-number: The level-number you wish to set. If you enter disable without a level-number, your security level is 1. Resetting a Z9000 Password To reset a password on a Z9000 system, follow these steps. 1. Connect to the Z9000 system using a console. 2. Disconnect and reconnect the power cord on the system to cycle the power. 3. During system boot, press ESC when prompted to display the Grub Menu (see Example 1). 4. During system boot, press ESC when prompted during the countdown to stop the auto-boot process (see Example 2). 5. Press C to access the Grub boot loader command line prompt. 6. Enter the following commands at the Grub command line prompt (grub>). set stconfigignore=true save_env stconfigignore reboot 7. The Z9000 system boots up with factory default configuration. The default Dell> system prompt displays when the system boots. 8. Copy the startup-config into the running-config. 9. To display the content of the startup-config, remove the previous authentication configuration and set the new authentication parameters. The rest of the previous configuration is preserved. Example 1 Example 2 Version 2.00.1201. Copyright (C) 2009 American Megatrends, Inc. EVALUATION COPY. Press or to enter setup. Grub 1.99~rc1 (Dell Force10) Security 805